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I agree with what you are saying up until you say nothing is wrong with the fan coming on at a 15% cpu load. regardless of what is really happening to take tha
by S_A_P 7y ago
I agree with what you are saying up until you say nothing is wrong with the fan coming on at a 15% cpu load.
regardless of what is really happening to take that 15% load, if the fan comes on that strong, it is not a proper thermal design. As a contrast, I have an 8 core iMac Pro. It can run full throttle and I rarely if ever hear the fan and it is much quieter than my 2018 6 core macbook pro. Of course a 27" home chassis has much more room to dissapate heat, but that is the point. Shoving oversized processors with multiple cores that generate lots of heat is at odds with Jony Ive's add more thinness campaign. I am now in a position where I use my macbook for dev and more intensive uses and its so damn annoying that Im seriously considering getting rid of it. I was at a client site this week, and my laptop was constantly the but of the joke, and disruptive to 5 other people working in a conference room. Sorry, but that just sucks...
- pram 7y ago15% load can mean a single i9 core boosting to 4.8-5ghz. The OP is correct. When I use a single threaded program that is keeping a core pinned at 100% why would it be unreasonable for the fan to be on?
- S_A_P 7y agoI dont care if the fan is on. I care that the fan is egregiously on. It is probably 95-100db on. That means that the macbook is fundamentally unable to manage the heat load it generates. It would be one thing if I were in the middle of the desert outside at 100degreeF conditions. But I was indoors and the ambient temperature was probably 68F. Again, I dont care if the fan runs, I just dont want to hear it, and I dont want the fan to be loud enough that everyone worries that my laptop is going to "catch fire", "Take off", "heat the room", and a half dozen other comments that were made at a client site. I bought a macbook to have nice hardware that I dont have to worry about...
- trevyn 7y agoTurn off spotlight, it’s broken. Other than that, it shouldn’t do that unless you’re doing something that obviously requires a lot of CPU/GPU.